A look into Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s drug addiction

The son of the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy told the story The New Yorker he first tried heroin when he was a teenager. He did drugs with Lem Billings, a close family friend, in his apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.

In the book The Kennedys: An American Dramaan ex-girlfriend of one of RFK Jr.’s cousins ​​said. what usually happened in Billings’ apartment.

“There was always a period of pleasant chatting. It was actually a period of waiting for someone to decide when and how we were going to score. Then there was the battle over who could do it first,” according to an excerpt. “B—– needles. Doors slamming. Lem in his bathrobe and shorts, shouting, ‘Bobby, get here quick,’ then going in to get his shot. The women had to sit there and wait for the drug residue. It was always a macho scene, a shootout: which of them could do the most drugs, which of them could do the most women.”

At the age of 16, RFK Jr. appeared. along with his cousin Robert Sargent Shriver III in juvenile court on charges of marijuana possession. They were placed on probation after a closed hearing.

Years later, in September 1983, he was arrested on the tarmac when he overdosed on heroin in the plane’s bathroom while on a flight to South Dakota, where he was to receive drug addiction treatment.

RFK Jr. talked about his addiction when he was a teenager. told Lex Fridman: “I was an addict for fourteen years. During that time, when you’re an addict, you live against your conscience… and you kind of push God to the periphery of your life.”